justasportsfan
07-21-2011, 12:03 PM
Just take him down! Football, under all its sophisticated cat and mouse scheming, is still a game of blocking and tackling, and you expect defenders to make tackles. We’ve now got three seasons worth of data in the books and it shows that all too often they don’t.
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Obviously, modern defensive players differ dramatically depending on the position they play, and the tackles being made by defensive linemen rarely resemble those being made by cornerbacks or safeties in the open field with space to marshall. As we’ll see a little later, the numbers reflect that. Nevertheless, it’s interesting seeing the distribution of players and the variance of performance within the same position over just three short seasons.
http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2011/07/21/missed-tackles-three-year-bests-and-worsts/
Our players are ranked up there yet we're dead last in franchise record run D.
Nice to see TKO . Miss the guy when he was in his best form.
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Obviously, modern defensive players differ dramatically depending on the position they play, and the tackles being made by defensive linemen rarely resemble those being made by cornerbacks or safeties in the open field with space to marshall. As we’ll see a little later, the numbers reflect that. Nevertheless, it’s interesting seeing the distribution of players and the variance of performance within the same position over just three short seasons.
http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2011/07/21/missed-tackles-three-year-bests-and-worsts/
Our players are ranked up there yet we're dead last in franchise record run D.
Nice to see TKO . Miss the guy when he was in his best form.